Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Mr. Lincoln (Henry Fonda, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek; TIME, June...
CURRENT & CHOICE Young Mr. Lincoln (Henry Fonda, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek; TIME, June 12). Stolen Life (Elisabeth Bergner, Michael Redgrave; TIME, June 5). The Mikado (Kenny Baker, Jean Colin, Martyn Green; TIME, June 5). Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Robert Donat, Greer Garson; TIME...
Young Mr. Lincoln (Henry Fonda, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek; TIME, June...
...play this pleasing young Mr. Lincoln, tall, spare Actor Henry Fonda stayed home nights to read up on the part, acted Lincolnesque on the set and off. During the filming he walked on three-inch stilts built into his boots, wore a rubber buildup on his nose and an applied wart on his right cheek. Director John Ford (The Informer) refused to see Fonda without his makeup, refused to let superProducer Darryl F. Zanuck dabble in the job, turned out, as a result, a jim-dandy piece of Lincoln mythology...
...right side obtains justice, no one cares very much, even though it seems that Alexander is awarded one-fifth of all the stock of Western Union for his invention. All this may have been very important at the time but nowadays it makes for pretty innocuous entertainment. Henry Fonda furnishes adequate comic relief, and the rest of the supporting cast strives valiantly to make a poorly presented story interesting. But the odds are too great. All in all, Mr. Bell deserves something better than this...